Evercare pilots highlight need for better data
Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality, a report for the Department of Health has shown. The report by UnitedHealth Europe assessing its nine Evercare pilot sites funded by the DH last year uncovered significant issues with data quality and access to […]
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National rate NHS phone numbers to be banned by April
The Department of Health has today confirmed that they will prevent GPs, local surgeries and dentists from using national (0870 or 0871) or premium rate lines and they will expect these to be replaced by ‘lo-call’ rate numbers by April, with payments of £500 per practice on offer to cover lost revenue. According to DH […]
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E-mail mentoring to help budding nurses
The University of East Anglia has set up an e-mail mentoring programme to help 14-15 year-olds from deprived backgrounds who have expressed an interest in entering nursing and other health professions realise their dreams. Students from UEA’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, along with students from the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice and […]
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CRDB conference stokes debate on patient awareness
E-Health Insider reports on the Care Records Development Board’s first conference, in London, which aimed to address the tough questions on patient confidentiality and public knowledge of electronic health records. “I think we have a job on our hands," observed the chair of the National Programme for IT’s Care Records Development Board (CRDB), surveying […]
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Ascribe seeks AIM listing
Medicines management software specialist, Ascribe is poised to seek a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and raise £5.5m to develop the company. Ascribe, which was established in 1989, expects to have a stock market capitalisation of about £20m. Managing director, Stephen Critchlow, a former hospital pharmacist, confirmed to E-Health Insider that the funds raised by […]
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Evening classes for electronic records?
Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in planning personal health choices are advocated in the government’s new white paper on public health. Buried beneath the headlines about smoking bans and combating obesity, the white paper, Choosing Health, says that as part of the drive […]
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Standard NHS user interface to be developed
Microsoft has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Programme for IT to deliver a standard user interface (UI) for all NHS clinical information systems. The announcement came at the same time as news of a long-term licensing agreement with the NHS for Microsoft software. Under the agreement relating to […]
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IT and wireless tech aiding elderly and disabled
Two new wireless-based devices which aim to give elderly and disabled people greater independence both inside and outside their home have been developed. Manufacturers of the Tunstall Intellec system, which consists of one large-screen portable wireless console and an infrared transmitter, claim that over 2500 different functions can be controlled, such as TVs and DVD […]
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Why GPs face Hobson’s choice
An exclusive interview with Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, about how he believes that GPs are being denied the choice of systems promised to them under the GP contract.
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NHS Scotland begins national EPR procurement
The NHS National Services Scotland, on behalf of NHS Scotland, has issued an OJEU invitation for expressions of interest for systems and services to support the national development of electronic patient records. NHS Scotland plans to procure a system known as Generic Clinical System (GCS), which will provide a set of tools to facilitate flexible […]
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